Connecticut western news., 1887-07-06
AMONG THE LABoRERs.
Live Items of Interest to Wage-earn-
 CTS and Wage-payers.

This is what General Master Workman Pow derly said: "Observation shows very clearly that where riots have grown out Of labor trou- bles the parties directly concerned have been foreigners. l do not think the present whole sale system of emigration IS sensible or just. think that all emigration should be stopped for a period of say year. and that commls- sion should be appointed to investigate the subject thoroughly and report what restrlc- tions should be established by law"
 A sheriff and nineteen deputies went to Natrona, Pa., to evict twenty-four families of the striking employees of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company.
 It was officially announced that the new con- stitution of the Knights of Labor had been ap- proved by at least two-thirds of the local as- semblies which have made reports to the Gen. exal Secretary. Less than 1000 assemblies voted against it's adoption.
 The National Convention of Building Trades Unions met in Chicago with P. J. Mcclure of Philadelphia as Chairman. Seventy-four dele gates from eleven cities were reported present. Mir. Brick of Brooklyn was chosen permanent President.
 The heavy demand for window glass in- creased importations from 26 pr cent. ln 1885 to g per cent last year.
 At meeting of the striking oil workers at Philadelphia it was stated by the Arbitration Board that Q committee would wait upon the General Executive Board of the Knights of Labor and ask for its approval of the plan to call out the employees of the Standard Oil Company at Cleveland and elsewhere in case the Manufacturing Committee refuse to make any conce ssions.
 The three large cotton mills at Mairville, R. l., have been closed indefinitely on account of the weavers' strike, and the company's for mer employees have been notified to quit their tenements. The operatives, about 1000 in number, mostly French Canadians, arc leaving the village. The strike was confined to the weavers, who complained of poor work and re- duced pay.
 Ernest Bohm, Corresponding Secretary of the Central Labor Union, has received from Trade and Labor Unions of the Pacific Coast, 8 notification that they are organizing the bookkeepers, clerks and accountants.
 Bangor slate quarries are shipping slate to Australia.
 The Philadelphia textile machinery manu- lecturers are doing rushing business.
 The timers of Birmingham, Ala., are ar ranging to form Knights of Labor Assembly,
 The Brotherhood of Carpenters and joiners issued nineteen new charters to local unions during the month of May.
 One of the most successful cooperative en- terprises on record is the Knights of Labor Cooperative Soap Company of Chicago.
 The German Ministry of War offers to native saddlers and manufacturers prize of 5000 marks for the best model of an Improved car fridge box.
 A woman is on the National Executive Board of Shoemakers, which elected officers week before last in Brockton, Mass. Her name is Lizzie McElree.
 The employees of the ice companies of New York met to consider their grievances. Their wages run from S6 to SIP Vt elk, and their working hours are frequently twenty hours a day. A resolution was adopted asking an in- crease to S15 weekly for drivers and bargemen and for helpers to $12 week. In case the employers do not accede to this demand 8 strike will undoubtedly follow.
 A telegram from Niagara Falls, Ont, says: ssThe action of the United States authorities in taking the names of Canadians employed on the American side they pass over the bridge causes great indignation here. The citizens threaten that if any bill compelling Canadians who work in the United States to live there be put in effect they will bring about measures to have the railways transact their business on the Canadian side of the river"